Yes, I hope Benoit is ok. I enjoyed him live and loved Fly From Here. I feel badly for the boys as this must be yet another difficult thing for them to endure. I think most genuine fans just want to see them make music and to make a decent living from their art. I certainly hope that Mr. Davison is a good fit for the band as long as he is needed. His voice does sound appropriate for the band. I believe he is used to singing professionally so I hope he can stand up to the stress of touring.
And sadly, that other site makes a pit of vipers seem like a welcoming place. Never have I seen such mean spirit on a Forum...even the camping/backpacking forums are not as bad (and they can be bad).
Benoit David out.
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Benoit was unable to finish the last tour, the band to cancel the last three shows. They were hoping for a recovery, but it looks like he doesn't feel up to touring. Once it was official, they moved pretty quickly to find a replacement. Not much is being said about future plans past the "down under" shows scheduled for April.kiramdear wrote:Is it indiscreet to ask what's going on with Mr. David? I mean, I hope he's going to be all better.
I imagine, as in the past, that the members of Yes that desire to continue working will do so with whomever they find to fill the empty shoes. It's always been true that no one musician is bigger than the band, although one guy comes close, in my (only slightly biased) opinion. Fan comments, much like music critics, will only factor in to a small degree.
Imagine if we had the internet when Bruford quit, when Moraz replace Wakeman, or when Trevor Rabin showed up, etc...
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Singing in that high register for days on end has to take a toll on the vocal cords. I hope he recovers soon.
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You were never on the Ampeg forum for the fairly short time it existed then.Billsbro wrote:And sadly, that other site makes a pit of vipers seem like a welcoming place. Never have I seen such mean spirit on a Forum...
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And Jon Anderson rejected an offer to re-join the band...
The official Yes Facebook account announced on 6 Feb 2012:
YES Recruit New Singer
Prog rock band YES were forced to cancel the last 3 shows of their European Tour in December due to the illness of lead vocalist Benoit David who has still not recovered. To avoid disappointing their fans on the forthcoming Australasian leg of their world tour, they have found a replacement singer.
Jon Davison will join YES as lead vocalist for the upcoming dates which begin in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, and Hawaii. YES really appreciate Jon Davison joining them for this leg of the tour and are sure this arrangement will satisfy all YES fans
The first official word on Jon Davison (Glass Hammer, Sky Cries Mary, Yes tribute band Roundabout) was a similar announcement from the Japanese promoter earlier that day. Glass Hammer band mate Steve Babb then said on ProgressiveEars.com that, "our Jon Davison will be joining Yes for a few shows - can't say more at present." The band have been planning to return to North America and possibly Europe in the summer (touring details below), although how those plans are affected by the change in lead vocalist is unknown. Howe and Downes then focus on Asia instead in the last quarter of the year. Another Yes album may then follow.
It appears that David quit the band in January. One report (e.g. here) has that the band reached out to Jon Anderson, but were rejected. The announcements so far only talk about Davison performing on the Apr tour leg. I have no definitive information on whether Davison is permanently replacing David, but the band's Facebook account now pictures Davison along side Squire, Howe, White and Downes and reports suggest David's departure, at least, is permanent.
http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnyesm.htm
The official Yes Facebook account announced on 6 Feb 2012:
YES Recruit New Singer
Prog rock band YES were forced to cancel the last 3 shows of their European Tour in December due to the illness of lead vocalist Benoit David who has still not recovered. To avoid disappointing their fans on the forthcoming Australasian leg of their world tour, they have found a replacement singer.
Jon Davison will join YES as lead vocalist for the upcoming dates which begin in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, and Hawaii. YES really appreciate Jon Davison joining them for this leg of the tour and are sure this arrangement will satisfy all YES fans
The first official word on Jon Davison (Glass Hammer, Sky Cries Mary, Yes tribute band Roundabout) was a similar announcement from the Japanese promoter earlier that day. Glass Hammer band mate Steve Babb then said on ProgressiveEars.com that, "our Jon Davison will be joining Yes for a few shows - can't say more at present." The band have been planning to return to North America and possibly Europe in the summer (touring details below), although how those plans are affected by the change in lead vocalist is unknown. Howe and Downes then focus on Asia instead in the last quarter of the year. Another Yes album may then follow.
It appears that David quit the band in January. One report (e.g. here) has that the band reached out to Jon Anderson, but were rejected. The announcements so far only talk about Davison performing on the Apr tour leg. I have no definitive information on whether Davison is permanently replacing David, but the band's Facebook account now pictures Davison along side Squire, Howe, White and Downes and reports suggest David's departure, at least, is permanent.
http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnyesm.htm
Re: Benoit David out.
“Jon Davison is coming in because of Benoit’s departure. I always hope that when there is a member change in the band that it will be a permanent thing. Only time will tell really”, founding member Chris Squire told Noise11.com this morning.
“I don’t know if I’m meant to be telling you this yet, so I guess you’ve got a scoop,”
Like Benoit David, Jon Davison was discovered fronting a Yes covers band. Benoit had joined Yes after the departure of original singer Jon Anderson. He has been suffering from respiratory failure this year and could not continue on for the Australia tour in April. However, his departure is permanent.
“Yes, he has officially left Yes,” Chris says.
Benoit David joined Yes in 2008. He sings lead on the latest yes album ‘Fly From Here’.
“People have left to go off to do various projects and solo projects over the years,” Chris says. “Some like Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman have left and come back. In Rick’s case, four times. It’s always been a fairly flexible in and out door for some members of the band. At the last count, including Jon Davison, he is the 18th member of the band. It has never been personal problems. It’s just things that happen at certain times”.
Chris says he is still friends with Jon Anderson and in regular communication. “We email each other. We have a cordial relationship,” he says. “He is out there at the moment doing some solo shows. He is a lot healthier now than he was a few years ago when he was suffering from his breathing problems. He is getting back into it. I have never closed the door on working with Jon again. He has left the band before and come back and left it again and come back. It is an unusual situation. We will work together in the future but right now we are promoting the Fly From Here album which is our first studio album in 10 years”.
The Australian setlist will feature the new album plus Yes classics. “We will be doing the new material from the Fly From Here album. It will pretty much the same as the Europe setlist around Christmas time,’ Chris says.
“There are songs from a couple of different eras. The 70s of course, ‘Roundabout’, ‘I’ve Seen All Good People’ are very popular songs as was ‘Starship Trooper’ from ‘The Yes Album’. From ‘Fragile’ there is ‘Heart of the Sunrise’ and sometimes we do ‘Long Distance Runaround’. Then there is the ‘90125’ must which we don’t do that much as we’d probably like to because that was a different guitar player in there, Trevor Rabin. Steve Howe is back in the band. We do a little bit of music from that era, the mid 80s”.
http://www.noise11.com/news/exclusive-y ... r-20120208
“I don’t know if I’m meant to be telling you this yet, so I guess you’ve got a scoop,”
Like Benoit David, Jon Davison was discovered fronting a Yes covers band. Benoit had joined Yes after the departure of original singer Jon Anderson. He has been suffering from respiratory failure this year and could not continue on for the Australia tour in April. However, his departure is permanent.
“Yes, he has officially left Yes,” Chris says.
Benoit David joined Yes in 2008. He sings lead on the latest yes album ‘Fly From Here’.
“People have left to go off to do various projects and solo projects over the years,” Chris says. “Some like Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman have left and come back. In Rick’s case, four times. It’s always been a fairly flexible in and out door for some members of the band. At the last count, including Jon Davison, he is the 18th member of the band. It has never been personal problems. It’s just things that happen at certain times”.
Chris says he is still friends with Jon Anderson and in regular communication. “We email each other. We have a cordial relationship,” he says. “He is out there at the moment doing some solo shows. He is a lot healthier now than he was a few years ago when he was suffering from his breathing problems. He is getting back into it. I have never closed the door on working with Jon again. He has left the band before and come back and left it again and come back. It is an unusual situation. We will work together in the future but right now we are promoting the Fly From Here album which is our first studio album in 10 years”.
The Australian setlist will feature the new album plus Yes classics. “We will be doing the new material from the Fly From Here album. It will pretty much the same as the Europe setlist around Christmas time,’ Chris says.
“There are songs from a couple of different eras. The 70s of course, ‘Roundabout’, ‘I’ve Seen All Good People’ are very popular songs as was ‘Starship Trooper’ from ‘The Yes Album’. From ‘Fragile’ there is ‘Heart of the Sunrise’ and sometimes we do ‘Long Distance Runaround’. Then there is the ‘90125’ must which we don’t do that much as we’d probably like to because that was a different guitar player in there, Trevor Rabin. Steve Howe is back in the band. We do a little bit of music from that era, the mid 80s”.
http://www.noise11.com/news/exclusive-y ... r-20120208
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Yep, sounds permanent - Yet another chapter...
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To me, Jon Davison sounds even better than Benoit.
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I liked everything I heard in that clip. I need to learn more about these guys. Dane?
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...about Glass Hammer?
I finally jumped in about 2 years ago because I had heard that Jon Anderson had done two "guest vocals" on their CD If. One was a remake of "South Side of the Sky." (Anderson does "scat-like" vocals on that.) I liked much of the CD. I am a sucker for the Progressive thing.
Like many bands, (IMHO) sometimes they nail it and other times they come so close but don't quite hit it. Many people have a hard time seeing past the VERY Yes-like writing, guitar/synth tones, and vocals. Me? I am willing to welcome all sorts of new bands into my head as long as they resonate for me.
Glass Hammer is worth listening to. I just ordered Cor Cordium...
I finally jumped in about 2 years ago because I had heard that Jon Anderson had done two "guest vocals" on their CD If. One was a remake of "South Side of the Sky." (Anderson does "scat-like" vocals on that.) I liked much of the CD. I am a sucker for the Progressive thing.
Like many bands, (IMHO) sometimes they nail it and other times they come so close but don't quite hit it. Many people have a hard time seeing past the VERY Yes-like writing, guitar/synth tones, and vocals. Me? I am willing to welcome all sorts of new bands into my head as long as they resonate for me.
Glass Hammer is worth listening to. I just ordered Cor Cordium...
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wow-when the vocals finally come in a the 3 minute mark, i would swear that was JA. John Davison's voice is VERY close! also the musical material is quite nice-about as much elp influences as yes.....
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I just downloaded it also. I may go for a walk with headphones tomorrow.Billsbro wrote:...about Glass Hammer?
I finally jumped in about 2 years ago because I had heard that Jon Anderson had done two "guest vocals" on their CD If. One was a remake of "South Side of the Sky." (Anderson does "scat-like" vocals on that.) I liked much of the CD. I am a sucker for the Progressive thing.
Like many bands, (IMHO) sometimes they nail it and other times they come so close but don't quite hit it. Many people have a hard time seeing past the VERY Yes-like writing, guitar/synth tones, and vocals. Me? I am willing to welcome all sorts of new bands into my head as long as they resonate for me.
Glass Hammer is worth listening to. I just ordered Cor Cordium...
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I agree, Woody, the keys are very Emerson influenced. I need to get this CD, vocal sound almost like Time and a Word era.woodyng wrote:wow-when the vocals finally come in a the 3 minute mark, i would swear that was JA. John Davison's voice is VERY close! also the musical material is quite nice-about as much elp influences as yes.....
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Rumours and reports have been conflicting about possible contact with Jon Anderson. One report has that the band made some sort of attempt to reach out to Anderson, but without a positive result; however, there appears to have been no discussions with Anderson. In response to online reports, Anderson has said he was not asked to re-join and that he isn't in regular communication with Squire.
http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnyesm.htm
http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnyesm.htm